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ESCAPE GAME — THE HAUNTING HAS JUST BEGUN
Some doors should never be opened. Some rooms don't want you to leave.
Escape Game is an interactive horror puzzle experience where every room hides a mystery, every clue brings you closer to the truth, and every step deeper into the unknown makes escape feel less certain.
Explore a forgotten crypt haunted by watching eyes. Enter a distorted office where something unseen has turned the world upside down. Then face the final vault, where solving the code may be your only chance to escape.
Built with Rive's creative and interactive toolset, this project brings together scripted gameplay, data-driven interactions, state-machine logic, and custom WGSL shader experiments to explore how a frightening atmosphere can be created through more than visuals alone.
The vision is to build a horror experience where the environment feels alive, the puzzles tell a story, and tension grows with every interaction.
This is more than an escape-room puzzle. It's the beginning of a world where every escape reveals another mystery.
Built with: Rive CLI · Rive scripting · Data Binding · State Machines · GPU Canvas · Custom WGSL shaders
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